I do. And, of course, I heard it preached to me since childhood. But, something in me doesn’t want to give. What is it?
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I don’t have much to give but I try to be generous with what I have.
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I do, too. I wonder if it’s because I wasn’t given to as a child, emotionally. I’m not good at receiving either. I give nothing and in receiving I want to take everything for myself.
Yeah, I think it’s due to emotional deprivation, too. I will cook for myself but don’t seem to want to cook for others or share.
I’m sceptical on many charities as have volunteered for a few and seen the darker side of them.
Generally like to help out though friends, strangers etc. Depends greatly on my mood though.
I have trouble with giving, especially with being asked to make a sacrifice of my time or energy for anyone. But it’s not because I was deprived – it’s because I had everything done for me as a child and I’m still spoiled and want my own way all the time. (Think Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory.)
It may not be because you were deprived. I think it may be because schizophrenia takes so much energy and time that we tend to become stingy with our resources.
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I must be terrible; but, when people call me on the telephone and ask me for money; I abruptly hang up. I don’t believe most of them are really legitimate. I received one call the other day where someone was asking me for someone. It was a wrong number. Then ,they asked if I wanted to get paid to lose weight! I know that something was wrong with that one! I immediately and abruptly hung up! If, I had more money, I would give to the ASPCA. They show commercials on television with animals that are so tragically mistreated. My cat and I just cry rivers of inside tears. Animals are so fragile and so vulnerable. Why are humans so mean to them? One man in a city near me was found to be stomping on a little puppy when he got in a argument with his girlfriend. I think they should convict him of murder!
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Spoiled is deprived in that they didn’t bother to teach us how to do for ourselves.
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Many people are skeptical when they look at many charities.
If the money you donate is to save say 2 children, yet in truth there is a chance that only 50% of the money will reach those in need, a lot of folk will therefore not donate at all, and thus approve of the death of the one child that they could have saved, since they won’t in truth be saving the expected two.
Anyhow, on my income budget that has ranged between aproximately $4,096 -> $9,012 per year, I donated to Worldvision, and I managed to get a homeless man off the streets and back with family members. And…
I am exactly opposite, i have problems taking. I feel like i do not deserve to get anything for some reason. I feel guilty when someone gives me gifts when i have nothing to give in return, i love giving gifts and treats, my roomate has cancer, and it makes me feel good to give her snacks and sodas and make her feel better, it makes me feel better inside.
I’ve been like this since I started school + was with other people my age. This is a major part of my schizophrenia, so maybe the seeds of it were there back then.
Last November I donated $200.00 to Doctors Without Borders. I used to be generous with my friends, but I’m not any more because they’re trying to set me up so they can bleed me dry.
I was always giving, right back to early childhood. I thought all people were like that because that is the way it is meant to be, thus it was obvious to me that no others(non-givers) existed at all.
But slowly over the years, “others” were taking advantage of me. But I was so convinced that no “others” existed, that it took me many many many many years to realize that this was not true, and that not only did “other” truly exist, but that many of them were being heartless cruel scum towards me.